La Cite des Affaires in Saint-Etienne

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1 234 Administrative Office Building 235 La Cite des Affaires in Saint-Etienne Location: Saint-Etienne, France Client:Altarea-Cogedim Architectural Design: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture Photography: Philippe Ruault, Vincent Fillon

2 236 Administrative Office Building 237 The site is a vital liaison point between the centre of Saint-Etienne and the new Chateaucreux neighbourhood, to which it forms a major entranceway.the building houses the offices for several government bodies, as well as a restaurant, tourism bureau and leisure facilities, including the head office of Saint-Etienne Metropole, a business canteen and 4 parking places. The façade of the building is made up of opaque and glass rectangular panels, contrasting with the yellow underbelly where parts of the volume have been cut away. Three entry points have been created where the building rises and falls, providing a yellow canopy over the pavement. A central courtyard allows easy circulation in and around the building. The project is like a large Aztec serpent rising on the lot. Its body has three identical outer faces, and an underside that is different: a skin of silvery transparent scales and a bright yellow throat, shiny and opaque. This dual treatment of surfaces obeys a simple logic shared throughout, which aims at expressing clarity in folds. Depending on these movements, the yellow underside is either a floating canopy or an interior vertical wall, accompanying internal pedestrian movements with its rich luminous presence. The nearness of so much gorgeous yellow brightens up pavements and glazed elevations, casting golden washes over them like sunlight This is a project that is about bringing together yellow and grey, silver and gold.

3 OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE TERRASSE OPEN TERRACE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE TERRASSE OPEN TERRACE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE TERRASSE OPEN TERRACE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE 238 Administrative Office Building 239 N N OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE TERRASSE TERRACE TERRASSE TERRACE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE TERRASSE TERRACE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE OPEN- OPEN- OFFICE N RELAXATION E DETENTE AREA PARTITIONED OFFICE CLOISONNES PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE MONUMENTAL ESCALIER MONUMENTAL STAIRCASE ACCES TO THE VERS TRAMWAY ENTREE CAR ENTRANCE LOBY PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE LOBY LOBY PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE PARVIS THE LE PARVIS SQUARE CARPARK ACCES ACCESS PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE LOBY PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE LOBY E EXTERIOR EXTERIEUR AREA UNDER SOUS PORTE-A-FAUX THE CANTILEVER PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE PARTITIONED CLOISONNES OFFICE LOBY PEDESTRIAN ACCES PIETON ACCESS FROM DEPUIS THE RUE STREET DE LA MONTAT THE RUE STREET DE LA MONTAT N

4 OFFICES ARCHIVES CARPARK Concrete lacquered finishing - yellow tint Fixed window frame semi-refelective glazed window Sous-face parement béton finition laquée teinte jaune Voile béton finition laquée teinte jaune OFFICES TOITURE IN TERRASSE ARCHIVES OFFICES PARVIS Fixed window frame semi-refelective glazed window Concrete lacquered finishing - yellow tint Fixed window frame semi-refelective glazed window TOITURE IN OFFICES ARCHIVES Voile béton finition laquée teinte jaune Chassis fixe engravé dans le voile vitrage semi-réflichissant TERRASSE Châssis fixe vitrage semi-reflechissant Voile béton finition résine polyuréthane teinte jaune Baie accessible Châssis fixe engravé dans le voile vitrage semi-réfléchissant Sous-face staff finition résine polyuréthane teinte jaune Terrasse Baie accessible PARVIS ARCHIVES 24 Administrative Office Building 241

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7 19 Multi-storey Office Building 191 Origami Building Location: Paris, France Client:Gecina Architectural Design: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture Surface: 5,8 m 2 Photography: Vincent Fillon This office building stands on avenue Friedland, in the immediate vicinity of the Arc de Triomphe and Place de l Etoile, in a luxurious Parisian neighborhood. The project was implemented in two parts: the main building on a 2 meter-wide stripe on the avenue, and an extension in the rear, between two courtyard gardens. At the ground floor level, the lobby plays on transparency between the street front and the main garden. The building in the rear of the lot is more private, and it is there that the cafeteria and meeting rooms are laid out, with garden space on both sides. The unusual location of the site led us to design a project that would embrace and take advantage of the view and immerse into the natural light. An emblematic showcase of the building the main façade is mostly glass, partially covered with a second-skin of screen-printed marble pattern. The rendered effect is a tremendous origami and the view of this delicate folded marble can be enjoyed both from exterior and interior of the building. The panels are composite, a film of marble mounted on a twin layer of glass. The sym-

8 192 Multi-storey Office Building 193 metrical panels that are folded and assembled by two form an open-book pattern and thus highlight the design of the veins of the marble. This second skin is translucent and acts as a breast wall to ensure privacy as well as filter daylight, creating a soft interior atmosphere. Marble folds create a vibration along the 3 meter-long front. At both ends, in continuity with the façades of neighboring buildings, the origami becomes calmer and flattens out. But in the central part it forms a delicate bas-relief. The project then develops into the depth of the site with the same objective of clarity while adding a strong presents of plants. The offices roofed with large lawns weave around the two courtyard gardens. The lobby functions as a meeting point of these two atmospheres the urban and sophisticated of the main façade, and the more private and verdant of the other side of the building. The interior spaces were designed in a contemporary spirit, highlighting the luminous atmosphere with light-colored and soft materials.

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